Taiwan's opposition KMT is worried it could lose ground in the November local elections, a bad sign for the party and a chance for the ruling DPP to expand its map.

• With 100 days to go, KMT insiders admit at least eight counties and cities are shaky, including Changhua, Chiayi City, Yilan and Hsinchu County.
• New Taipei and Keelung are seen as the main battlegrounds; the KMT leads there, but only by a single-digit margin.
• The party blames its own leadership for the trouble — new chair Cheng Li-wun has not settled local nomination fights, unlike past chairs who forced deals through.
• In Changhua, repeat visits by the chair have not fixed a feud between the county magistrate and a sitting lawmaker, who still refuse to appear together.
• Taitung and Hualien, normally safe KMT ground, are now at risk because the DPP has unified its local candidates.

Outlook: Unless the KMT settles its nomination fights in the next few weeks, the DPP looks set to take back several counties it lost in 2022.